Cullman police close investigation of Monday murder-suicide

CULLMAN,
Alabama -- Cullman police have ruled the investigation of a murder-suicide
earlier this week closed unless more information is found, according
to The Cullman Times.

David Eugene
Abney, 42, and Terry Glen Bailey, 54, both died Monday night after they were
found with gunshot wounds around 9:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of 3rd Street Southwest
in Cullman, the newspaper reported. Abney was found dead of gunshot wounds to
the head and chest. His death was ruled a homicide.

Bailey is
believed to have shot Abney and then turned the gun on himself, police told the
Times. Bailey was found in his vehicle with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot
wound to the head.

Police said
the two men had been involved in an altercation on Dec. 24 last year, when
officers were called to an apartment complex to a report of fighting.

Bailey was
arrested for disorderly conduct, public intoxication and third-degree assault
that night after he was uncooperative with the responding officer, police told
the Times.